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Processing will include crushing, using a jaw crusher, cone crusher, and <br />impact crusher. Materials will be sized using vibrating screens and stockpiled <br />using conveyor belts. No chemicals will be used during the crushing process. An <br />asphalt batch plant and a concrete batch plant will be used at times throughout <br />the mining process and will be placed at the Pit 4 site prior to mining. <br />Explosives are not expected to be used at this site. <br />The Clarks own the surface and the mineral rights to the affected land. <br />This permit is expected to take 30 years to complete. <br />Mining Rates: <br />It is anticipated that mining will occur at varying rates for 4 to 5 months per <br />year. A maximum rate per year would be 200,000 tons. That amount would <br />require mining at a rate of 2000 tons per day on a 5 day per week basis. A <br />200,000 tons mined year is expected to happen 1 to 2 times during the life of <br />these pits. The average mining year will be around 50,000 tons. <br />Crushing Rates: <br />To handle 200,000 tons of mined material, a 250 ton per hour crusher <br />would have to operate approximately 80 days per year (based on 10 hour days). <br />The average year of mining 50,000 tons would require 1 month of crushing. <br />Water Use: <br />An average asphalt plant will use around 8000 gallons of water per day. <br />Crushing and screening operations will depend on the size of the plant. A <br />medium sized plant (250 tons per hour) will use 4000 gallons per day to control <br />dust. A concrete batch plant will use around 1000 gallons per day. <br />There are no plans to put a permanent asphalt batch plant or concrete <br />batch plant on site. It is anticipated these units will move in and out of the site as <br />jobs and contracts are fulfilled. A crushing plant may be placed on site for the life <br />of the 4 pits. The crushing plant would not run every day all summer long, but for <br />